There is growing evidence of how bad—and expensive—air pollution is in Lagos, Africa’s largest mega-city.
Residents in Lagos are paying for the city’s worsening air pollution with their lives|Yomi Kazeem|September 25, 2020|Quartz
Today, shawarma is eaten in many parts of the Middle East, northern Africa, and the Mediterranean.
Turn a cheap chicken dinner into a Turkish street-food getaway|SAVEUR Editors|September 25, 2020|Popular Science
This includes the continents of Africa, South America and much of Asia.
A dirty and growing problem: Too few toilets|Stephanie Parker|September 24, 2020|Science News For Students
Gellert has overseen Patagonia’s business across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa since 2014.
Patagonia Just Announced a New CEO|Christopher Solomon|September 23, 2020|Outside Online
In January 1984, Tropical Storm Domoina cut a swath of destruction across the southern end of Africa.
An Insurance Solution for the World’s Poorest|Daniel Malloy|September 21, 2020|Ozy
While the world fixated on Ukraine and Syria, a near-genocide ripped through central Africa, to little international fanfare.
The Year’s Most Forgotten Humanitarian Crisis|Nina Strochlic|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Egypt has a comparatively low number of HIV cases compared to the rest of Africa, with just 11,000 infected people nationwide.
Sisi Is Persecuting, Prosecuting, and Publicly Shaming Egypt’s Gays|Bel Trew|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Rebels in Africa trade in children to fund their conflicts and obtain child soldiers.
ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century Terrorism|Louise I. Shelley|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Despite the obvious ongoing problems with disease and access to basics, the future of Africa is bright.
Silicon Valley Sets Its Sights on Africa|Christian Borys|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Whatever the future holds for Africa, optimism certainly abounds.
Silicon Valley Sets Its Sights on Africa|Christian Borys|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This class, Mr. C. supposes, embraces one half of the whole number transported from Africa.
Abolitionism Exposed!|W. W. Sleigh
Bacchus told of some ancient race that had introduced the vine into Europe and Africa.
Caesar's Column|Ignatius Donnelly
There is not a single bookseller's shop, however, in either eastern or western Africa.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa|David Livingstone
He seems merely to be rowdy in Ireland when he is really carrying the war into Africa—or England.
George Bernard Shaw|Gilbert K. Chesterton
They conquered in breathless advance Egypt and all north of Africa, and held their own still in its most western region.
The Walls of Constantinople|Bernard Granville Baker
British Dictionary definitions for Africa
Africa
/ (ˈæfrɪkə) /
noun
the second largest of the continents, on the Mediterranean in the north, the Atlantic in the west, and the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Indian Ocean in the east. The Sahara desert divides the continent unequally into North Africa (an early centre of civilization, in close contact with Europe and W Asia, now inhabited chiefly by Arabs) and Africa south of the Sahara (relatively isolated from the rest of the world until the 19th century and inhabited chiefly by Negroid peoples). It was colonized mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries by Europeans and now comprises independent nations. The largest lake is Lake Victoria and the chief rivers are the Nile, Niger, Congo, and Zambezi. Pop: 887 964 000 (2005 est). Area: about 30 300 000 sq km (11 700 000 sq miles)
The second-largest continent, after Asia; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Indian Ocean.
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Africa has been the home of great civilizations, particularly in Egypt (see also Egypt), along the Mediterranean Sea. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, European nations colonized much of the continent (see colonialism). In the twentieth century, the colonies became independent countries.
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Africa south of the Sahara is sometimes called sub-Saharan Africa.
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Sub-Saharan Africa has been hit especially hard by HIV/AIDS, drastically decreasing the life expectancy of much of the population.